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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 3103701" data-attributes="member: 30035">Personally one of the things I find most enjoyable (and frustrating at the same time) about the books is that Rowling's perceptions of people are fairly accurate. People do dumb things and make bad choices all the time. Dumbledore decides not to tell Harry something for reasons that seem good to him at the time he makes the decision, but later it turns out it would have been much better for him to have shared the information at an early stage. That's how things work in real life, too. I can remember thinking after reading the first book, "How could none of Harry's teachers at Muggle school notice how neglected he was? How could the Dursleys neighbors fail to notice how they were mistreating him? Why didn't Dumbledore do something?" But on reflection I realized that very likely that's how it would have worked out in the real world. Neighbors just don't pay attention. Teachers don't either, or perhaps they're afraid to make a stir. Dumbledore couldn't interfere, partly because of the restrictions on magic in the Muggle world, and partly because of other issues that are revealed in the later books (which I won't discuss in detail because I don't think you've read that one yet, Edena). Similarly, the relationship between Harry and Snape seems very 'real' to me because it mirrors what real people would likely do. People resent other people for often very trivial reasons, but there's usually very little that can overcome that visceral response, especially not rational thought.</blockquote>

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